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New Record of a Genus and Four Species of Family Arctiidae (Insecta : Lepidoptera) from India


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1 Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Bahadurpur Housing Colony, Sector-8, Patna-26, Bihar, India
2 Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 (Punjab), India
 

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Arctiidae is a major Noctuoid family of order Lepidoptera with estimated number of 10,945 species from the Globe (Heppner 1991) including more than 500 from India (Kirti & Gill 2010). Members of this family tend to be small to medium size with aposematic colours. The meta thoracic tymbal organ, a pre-spiracular counter tympanal hood and a pair of pheromonal glands between the ovipositor lobes are the main apomorphic characters of family Arctiidae.
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  • New Record of a Genus and Four Species of Family Arctiidae (Insecta : Lepidoptera) from India

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Navneet Singh
Zoological Survey of India, Gangetic Plains Regional Centre, Bahadurpur Housing Colony, Sector-8, Patna-26, Bihar, India
Jagbir Singh
Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala 147 002 (Punjab), India

Abstract


Arctiidae is a major Noctuoid family of order Lepidoptera with estimated number of 10,945 species from the Globe (Heppner 1991) including more than 500 from India (Kirti & Gill 2010). Members of this family tend to be small to medium size with aposematic colours. The meta thoracic tymbal organ, a pre-spiracular counter tympanal hood and a pair of pheromonal glands between the ovipositor lobes are the main apomorphic characters of family Arctiidae.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi.v113i1.168872